- The Odds Ratio is a confusing but unavoidable statistic which comes up in both scientific and non-scientific articles. In a recent short paper published in the British Medical Journal, Robert Grant explains why it confuses people and how it should be interpreted.
- Last week, many helpful R articles attracted attention from readers. Comparisons of R vs. Matlab, and R vs. Python, how to compare multiple (g)lm in one graph, working with time series data sources, Princeton’s guide to linear modeling and logistic regression with R, and A First Look at rxDForest() – an R classification and regression tree package.
- Xi’an discusses a recent paper by Chris Drovandi and Tony Pettitt called Bayesian indirect inference.
- What are your chances of making it to the big leagues? Ryan Sleeper created an interactive visualization to show the odds for different sports. Choose wisely: for a high school athlete your chances can be as high as one in 170 or as low as 1 in 19,056.
